How can I help my traumatised child?
Perhaps you have fled your homeland because it has been destroyed, or because a war is going on there. You have left the home that you shared with your family. And on your journey to Germany, you may also have experienced great hardship. Perhaps you fled your homeland because you felt that your life and that of your children was threatened. Many things were also very difficult while on the run. People who have experienced such unsafe circumstances are sometimes haunted by the memories for a long time. The images of threaten- ing events are particularly hard to forget. The fear associated with them plagues the mind and soul. It is normal and human to feel this way, but sometimes the memories remain alive. The memories of a terrible event sometimes continue to hurt like a physical wound. Such memories are sometimes unlike any you have ever experienced.
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Searches with the Red Cross and Red Crescent network often take several months to years. We therefore recommend that you actively use your own resources. Even if you have already contacted the Swiss Red Cross to search for relatives, you can continue your …
"Support for torture victims" is a network of five specialized outpatient clinics in Switzerland. Survivors of torture, war and displacement receive medical, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial counselling, treatment and support in this clinics.
This is where the SPIRIT project comes in and aims to improve the resilience of refugees and give them equal access to adequate health care.
Three children embark on a journey to find their "safe place". This is the animated film of the picture book "Lily, Ben and Omid" by Marianne Herzog (author) and Jenny Hartmann Wittke (illustrator).
